Thanks! That image just jumped out at me today - I love simple images that have very strong contrasts and shadows, and that allow me to do close-ups on faces; and the First's expression is so different to Buffy's. I think I got the quote from The First!Joyce right from BoTN but I didn't double-check for accuracy.
My partner tried Gimp on our (her) previous desktop but couldn't get the hang of it (admittedly, she didn't try very long. and she was already used to Photoshop anyway.)
I haven't tried Paint.net but we are trying out Pixelmater free for 30 days; it seems to be a simpler form of Photoshop, and she'll probably buy it for $30. (I think she'd like me to use it so I won't touch her Photoshop programs, which are "off limits" - not that I ever have.) I'm going to try to recreate one of these icons with that and see what I can come up with. (I have a lot to learn!)
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Date: 2014-01-01 10:23 pm (UTC)Thanks! That image just jumped out at me today - I love simple images that have very strong contrasts and shadows, and that allow me to do close-ups on faces; and the First's expression is so different to Buffy's. I think I got the quote from The First!Joyce right from BoTN but I didn't double-check for accuracy.
My partner tried Gimp on our (her) previous desktop but couldn't get the hang of it (admittedly, she didn't try very long. and she was already used to Photoshop anyway.)
I haven't tried Paint.net but we are trying out Pixelmater free for 30 days; it seems to be a simpler form of Photoshop, and she'll probably buy it for $30. (I think she'd like me to use it so I won't touch her Photoshop programs, which are "off limits" - not that I ever have.) I'm going to try to recreate one of these icons with that and see what I can come up with. (I have a lot to learn!)